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San Francisco Chronicle World War Ii
1,344 wordsThe novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles looks into the life of young men on the verge of adulthood. Some of them are not able to cope, while others deal with life and make the best of it. The novel does an excellent job of portraying life during World War II, as seen through the eyes of a young boy. The story takes places in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the Devon School. It opens during the summer of 1942. In A Separate Peace, the main character, Gene, starts to feel as though him and Phineas (...
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Spanish Civil War Ernest Hemingway
1,150 wordsFor Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's own experiences in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930 's. Before I delve into the book itself, I thought it would be best to give some background information on Ernest Hemingway and on the Spanish Civil war and the circumstances surrounding it. Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, and the second of six children. His father, Clarence Hemingway, was a physician and his mother was a devoutly religious woman wit...
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Jack London Pacific Ocean
554 wordsJohn (Jack) Griffith London (1876 - 1916) was born in San Francisco, California. His mother, Flora Wellman, came from a wealthy family. As an infant, Virginia Prentiss, a major mother figure, raised Jack in Jacks childhood, an ex-slave. She was obligated to care for Jack because Jacks mother was ill. In his teenage years, Jack worked very hard jobs he served on a fish patrol catching poachers; he pirated oysters on the San Francisco Bay; he sailed the Pacific Ocean on a sealing ship; and he join...
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San Francisco York City
747 wordsOn November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens was born, Samuel Langhorne. Four years later the family moved to Hannibal, the place Clemens spent his boyhood years. His town was located on the bank of the Mississippi River to which the boy had strong ties. The steamboats on the river made Clemens dream of becoming a steamboat pilot. One short year after his father's death in 1847, Samuel became apprentice to printer Joseph Ament, the publisher of the Missouri ...
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Chinese Exclusion Act 20 Th Century
1,634 words... the examination is completed, the petition filed in court, and all investigations of fitness for citizenship completed. (1, 68) Then the petitioner will be notified to appear before the court for the final hearing. (1, 68) If the examiner agrees that the applicant should be a citizen, he or she becomes a citizen. (1, 68) If the examiner does not agree, he or she will have to come to court with or without an attorney and the judge will hear what the petitioner has to say. (1, 68) The judge th...
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Precious Metals Base Metals
1,365 wordsCurrency, the Beginning, the Present, and the Future "Money - in the traditional sense no longer exists. It died two decades ago when Richard Nixon forever abolished the gold standard. Since then, money as we once knew it has been replaced by an unstable new global medium of exchange that is called 'megabyte money'... megabyte money is a threat not only to our country's long-term growth and prosperity, but to the individual as well. " - Joel Kurtz man, The Death Of Money, 1993 Economy when it wa...
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Men And Women Years To Life
1,338 wordsIn California there is a law known as the 3 -Strikes Law. Other states such as Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, and a few other states have also adopted this law. (2) This 3 -Strikes and Your Out Law, states that if a person has two previous violent or serious felony convictions, he or she is sentenced to a life sentence with no chance of parole. (1) It also states that if a person has one previous violent or serious felony conviction (which includes burglary of an unoccupied dwellin...
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Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix
892 wordsMusic and Drugs Beginning with the late 1960 s counterculture in San Francisco, music and drugs will forever be inter-linked. Hippie bands such as the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and Phish are associated with marijuana, mushrooms, and LSD. Modern electronic rave, or club music is associated with MDMA or Ecstasy. When one thinks of rock and roll, sex and drugs immediately come to mind. While the use of drugs is not essential for the creation or performance of all new music, it was certain...
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American Drug Laws Do They Help Or Hurt
722 wordsAmerican Drug Laws: Do They Help or Hurt? I believe the drug laws are in serious need of reform. We tend to forget that alcohol is a drug and that at one time it was prohibited without success. Also, I believe that a civil body of government rather than a criminal one should regulate drug use. It is a social problem, not a criminal one. As a largely victimless crime they should not have their civil rights taken away just because they like to take drugs which we have arbitrarily made illegal. Dru...
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Vera Cruz Aztec Empire
1,144 wordsCort's, Here or Cortez, Hernando (1485 - 1547), Spanish explorer and conqueror of the Aztec Empire of Mexico. Cort's was born in Medelln, Extremadura. He studied law at the University of Salamanca, but cut short his university career in 1501 and decided to try his fortune in the New World. He sailed for Santo Domingo in the spring of 1504. In 1511 he joined the Spanish soldier and administrator Diego Velzquez in the conquest of Cuba, and subsequently became alcalde (mayor) of Santiago de Cuba. I...
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San Andreas Fault Tectonic Plates
480 wordsIntroduction The San Andreas Fault is a geologic fault zone between two tectonic plates that runs from San Francisco south to San Diego in California. It is an area of frequent earthquakes caused by the plates sliding past each other. It is so called because it runs along the San Andreas Valley. The San Andreas fault was brought dramatically to world attention in 1906 when sudden displacement along the fault produced the great San Francisco earthquake and fire. This earthquake was but one of man...
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Mother And Child Personal Values
866 wordsHumanities Through the Arts Essay # 1 Giotta, 1312: Madonna Enthroned (1 st. Painting) Francisco Goya: May 3, 1808 in the Part, Madrid I found the Giotta, Madonna Enthroned painting to be the most interesting because the power and love the painting displays. The personal values in this particular painting, such as the colors caught my eye because; the colors in this painting are almost bronzed. To me bronzed shows heroism. A very rich colored painting with the golden brown colors mixed with some...
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Call Of The Wild Jack London
538 wordsJack London s characters and settings reflect his life in his works. This is most obvious in his novels The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, and To Build a Fire. Jack London was born in 1876 in San Francisco, California. He lived with his father and mother. His father was an astrologer and his mother supposedly talked to the dead. He grew up not being cared for and with very little education (Adventures 482). Jack London finished school through the 8 th grade (Wilson 1). When he turned eighteen he...
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Call Of The Wild Jack London
715 wordsJack London (1876 - 1916) was easily the most successful and best-known writer in America in the first decade of the 20 th century. He is best known for his books, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as " To Build a Fire" and " The White Silence. " He was a productive writer whose fiction traveled through three lands and their cultures such as the Yukon, California, and the South Pacific. His most famous writings included war, box...
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Joe Dimaggio Batting Average
291 wordsJoseph Joe Dimaggio DiMaggio, Joe Joseph Paul DiMaggio, b. Martinez, Calif. , Nov. 25, 1914, was professional baseballs premier center fielder during the late 1930 s and 1940 s. Playing his entire career (1936 - 42, 1946 - 51) for the New York Yankees, DiMaggio was a dangerous batter and one of the most graceful and fleet outfielders ever to play the game hence his nicknames, Join Joe and the Yankee Clipper. DiMaggio was the eighth of nine children of a San Francisco fisherman. In 1936 the Yanke...
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Sierra Nevada Sierra Club
976 wordsJohn Muirexplorer, writer, and conservationist was born on April 21, 1838 in Dunbar, Scotland. Until the age of eleven he attended the local schools of that small coastal town. In 1849, the Muir family emigrated to the United States, settling first at Fountain Lake another moving to Hickory Hill Farm near Portage, Wisconsin. Muir's father was a harsh disciplinarian and worked his family from dawn to dusk. Whenever they were allowed a short period away from the plow and hoe, Muir and his younger ...
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John Muir Forest Lands
1,557 wordsJohn Muir's Trail in History John Muir was a man of great importance in the history of the United States and in the preservation of its beauty. His tireless efforts to protect natural wonders such as Yosemite Valley demonstrated his undying love for the outdoors. Muir took a stand against the destructive side of civilization in a dauntless battle to save Americas forest lands. The trail of preservation that Muir left behind has given countless numbers of people the opportunity to experience natu...
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Tobacco And Alcohol Alcohol And Tobacco
1,111 wordsWould Legalization Benefit Society? Would legalization in anyway benefit society? That is exactly the point that Benson B. Roe and William J. Olson tackle in these selections. With Benson taking the pro side and William taking the con side. In both articles they argue over the effects that the legalization of drugs would have on our American society. Benson says that drugs are no worse than tobacco and alcohol. William will actually agree with this and say that we should prohibit tobacco and alc...
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Stock Market Bull Market
1,368 wordsThe Internet bubble Still deflating WTF? The Internet Bubble contends that all the whoop-tee-do stocks you have been in love with were overpriced. So, shortly after the first major deflation in the Internet stock, he was like WTF? At the peak of the market for Internet stocks in January of this year, the 400 -plus public Internet companies were worth a steep $ 1. 5 trillion combined. As of a new calculation done in mid-July, they are now worth about $ 970 billion, a decline of more than 30 perce...
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Back On Track Selling Drugs
768 wordsStreet Street Soldier Street Soldier Street Soldier, by Joseph Marshall, is a inspiring well written book. The book is about his life and how he started the Omega Boys Club. The Omega Boys Club is a club that helps keep inter city kids off the streets. There is a connection between the authors life and certain events in the novel. For example his personality traits, his special skills, what he has done for society, and what his day-to-day existence has done for other people, you will also see ho...
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